Grants & Funding Monitor

Find every open grant and call for proposals that fits your organisation, with deadlines, amounts and eligibility in one table, and get alerted when new calls appear.

Built for NGOs, startups, universities, consultants and grant writers, especially in Africa. Grant hunting usually means checking a dozen portals and foundation websites every week. This Actor does it in one run.

Sources

Source	How	What you get
Grants.gov (US federal)	Official API	Posted and forecast opportunities, award floor/ceiling, total funding, number of awards, cost sharing, applicant types, eligibility text, agency contact
EU Funding & Tenders Portal	Official portal search API	Horizon Europe (incl. ERC, MSCA, EIC), LIFE, Erasmus+, Creative Europe, Digital Europe, CEF, EU4Health, CERV and cascade funding: budget, min/max EU contribution, expected grants, all deadlines/stages, eligibility conditions
Any funder website	Paste the opportunities page	Foundations, development agencies, embassies, African funds, corporate programmes. Listing pages are parsed, "Next" pages followed, and each call's own page is opened for deadline, amount, eligibility, guidelines PDFs and the apply link
Any RSS/Atom feed	Paste the feed URL	Aggregators and funder news feeds

What each opportunity includes

• title, funder, programme, call_identifier, url, apply_url, documents
• status: open, closing_soon, forthcoming, rolling, unknown (closed calls are dropped by default)
• opens_at, deadline, days_to_deadline, additional_deadlines (multi-stage calls), deadline_note
• amount_min, amount_max, total_budget, currency, amount_display, expected_awards, cost_sharing
• applicant_types (nonprofit, business, university-research, government, individual, international-org), eligibility_text, eligible_countries_text
• country_eligibility for your country: eligible_mentioned, region_mentioned (e.g. "Sub-Saharan Africa"), global (e.g. "low- and middle-income countries", "foreign organizations"), restricted_elsewhere ("U.S. entities only", "EU Member States only") or unknown
• themes (climate, energy, agriculture, health, education, research, tech, SMEs, gender, youth, governance, WASH, arts, humanitarian, infrastructure), funding_type (grant, cooperative agreement, fellowship, prize, loan, equity)
• relevance_score and matched_profile_words, scored against your organisation description
• is_new, changed_since_last_run, previous_deadline, previous_status, also_listed_at (same call found on several sources)
• extraction_method and confidence: official API rows are 1.0; website rows are scored heuristically

Outputs

• Dataset: views Opportunities and Eligibility & money. Export to Excel, CSV or JSON, or send to Google Sheets.
• DIGEST: email-ready HTML with new calls and deadlines in the next 14 days.
• DEADLINES: .ics calendar with every deadline and a reminder 7 days before. Import it into Google Calendar or Outlook.
• OUTPUT: counts by source, theme and status, what each filter removed, warnings and errors.

Quick starts

NGO in Kenya looking for climate funding

{ "searchTerms": ["climate adaptation", "resilience"], "eligibleCountry": "Kenya", "applicantTypes": ["nonprofit"],
  "organizationProfile": "Kenyan NGO supporting smallholder farmers and women with climate-smart agriculture and water", "sortBy": "relevance" }

Weekly alert to Slack, including foundation pages

{ "searchTerms": ["digital health"], "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.example-foundation.org/grants" }, { "url": "https://www.example-news.org/funding/feed/" }],
  "onlyNew": true, "monitorName": "digital-health", "webhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/…" }

Then schedule it weekly in Apify (Schedules). The first run builds the baseline. Later runs alert only on new or changed calls, including extended deadlines.

Tips

• Search terms go to the official APIs; "Must contain any of" filters everything, including website rows.
• "Your country" with the default mode only removes calls that clearly exclude you. Choose "mentioned-only" for a stricter list.
• Amount filters use each call's own currency (USD, EUR, KES…). Calls without a stated amount are kept.
• Website extraction is heuristic: check confidence and the call page before applying. Increase "Call pages to open" for richer rows.

Limits

• Grants.gov and EU data come from their public APIs and can change format without notice. The run reports a failing source and continues with the others.
• Eligibility tags come from text analysis and are a triage aid, not legal advice. Always read the official call documents.
• Only public pages are read. Nothing requires a login.

Pricing

$0.002 per opportunity saved ($2 per 1,000). Duplicates, filtered-out calls and unchanged calls in "Only new or changed" mode are free. See PRICING.md.